Common sage (Salvia officinalis) antiviral role: potentiality of a Unani hand sanitizer in COVID-19 (corona virus) second wave control

The world has been fighting against a pandemic for more than year, caused by highly infectious disease named COVID-19 rooted the novel coronavirus 2019. It already spread out in most of countries and few which are experiencing second wave. Novel coronavirus-2019 (SARS CoV-2) incurred 1.6 million deaths 76 cases population (till 20 December 2020). Although some vaccines being launched, however, their effectivity availability still unknown. Maintaining personal hygiene social distance best way protection. Hand washing is utmost recommendation maintenance since hands can be contaminated droplets easily. Particularly, situations, it crucial to interrupt transmission chain virus practice proper hand sanitization. sanitization solely depends on use effective disinfecting agents. Natural formula-based disinfectants preferable chemicals because higher efficacy lower adverse effects. Unani medicine system based natural formulations. „Raihan? (common sage, Salvia officinalis) frequently used its disinfectant role. Common sage extract with ethanol may provide superior COVID-19. In this article, we presented information common potentiality using as natural, skin-friendly sanitizer prevent harmful action chemical mixing synthetic sanitizer.
 Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. 2020, 6(4): 611-617